62 AN ACCOUNT OF THE WILD TfiiBES 



a tree called kassi. Tobacco, wlieii it can be 

 liad, is niucli used, even by women and 

 children, in c[iewing and smoking. 



Tiie Jakuns of Malacca and those of 

 Johore have no other arms tliari spears and 

 parangs; very few use the sunipitan, aiul 

 they are entirely unacquainted with tiie 

 use of poisoned arrows. Tlie Jakuiis spears 

 consist in an iron blade of about one fool 

 long, and one inch broad hi tlie middle , 

 att;icbed to a thick rudely worked shaft 

 about live or six feet long, and sharp at 

 the inferior eKtreraity, in order to enter 

 easily into the ground; for before they en- 

 lera house tliey strike the end of the spear 

 into Ltie ground, where it remains until 

 they go aw a). It is scarcely possible to 

 meet a single Jakun without his spear, 

 whicli is both a stick to walk witlu and an 

 olVensive or defensivt' weapon as tlie occa- 



